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    Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was an English inventor. He was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone...
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    customers. The first poles were used in 1843 by telegraph pioneer William Fothergill Cooke, who used them on a line along the Great Western Railway. Utility...
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    Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system dating from the 1830s invented by English inventor William Fothergill Cooke and...
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  • politician William Cooke, MP for Lewes William Wilcox Cooke (died 1816), Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879)...
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    appeared at times to take more credit than he was due. As well as William Fothergill Cooke, Alexander Bain and David Brewster, mentioned above, these also...
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    In England, William Fothergill Cooke started building telegraphs, initially based on Schilling's design. With Charles Wheatstone, Cooke produced a much...
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    enabling text-based transmissions. In 1837, the British inventors William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone obtained a patent for the first commercially...
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    in 1846 by William Fothergill Cooke and John Ricardo. It was the world's first public telegraph company. The equipment used was the Cooke and Wheatstone...
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    communication and transportation develop significantly. In 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone invented the first telegraph system. This...
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    electrical telegraph was demonstrated by English inventor Sir William Fothergill Cooke and English scientist Sir Charles Wheatstone. Both inventors viewed...
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    minute. The electrical telegraph was first commercialized by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway in England. It ran...
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    developers William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, especially as Davy had been approaching railway companies who were also the main target for Cooke and...
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    was the first earth-return telegraph put into service. By 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had co-developed a telegraph system which...
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    developed in the early part of the 19th century, was refined by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone and was installed on a short section of...
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  • of Manchester Fothergill (disambiguation) Fothergilla Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872), English music critic William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879),...
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    practical use. Starting in 1836, William Fothergill Cooke, with the scientific assistance of Charles Wheatstone, developed the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph...
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  • electricity and magnetism made that a practical reality. In 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone invented a telegraphic system that used...
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    replaced in 1841 with ones specific to block working. In 1842, William Fothergill Cooke, who had built the Clay Cross system, published Telegraphic Railways...
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    The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, first commercially successful electric telegraph, is designed by Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill Cooke...
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  • commutators were used to produce direct current. Around 1838-40, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone developed a telegraph. In 1840 Wheatstone...
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  • Michael Faraday. 1836 – William Fothergill Cooke invents a mechanical telegraph. 1837 with Charles Wheatstone invents the Cooke and Wheatstone needle telegraph...
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    him. William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet in 1824. The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-invented by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and...
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    Ronalds in 1816 and used static electricity. Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill Cooke patented a five-needle, six-wire system, which entered commercial...
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  • electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway. Cooke and Wheatstone patented it in May 1837...
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  • telegraph developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875) and Sir William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879). 1837: Pitman Shorthand invented by Isaac Pitman (1813–1897)...
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    – Catherine Labouré, French visionary, saint (d. 1876) May 4 – William Fothergill Cooke, English inventor (d. 1879) May 12 – J. V. Snellman, Finnish statesman...
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    mover. The first commercial telegraph system was installed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone in May 1837 between Euston railway station...
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  • the first practical engineering application of electricity by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone who co-developed a telegraph system that...
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  • on the north side was completed in 1898 In more recent history William Fothergill Cooke invented the first commercial electrical telegraph whilst living...
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  • James Blyth, electrical engineer, pioneer of the Wind Turbine William Fothergill Cooke, engineer, founder of Electric Telegraph Company Lewis Gordon,...
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